Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.